From owner-freebsd-arch Sun Jul 9 20:27:37 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mass.osd.bsdi.com (adsl-63-202-177-51.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.202.177.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48BA337C3DA for ; Sun, 9 Jul 2000 20:27:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.osd.bsdi.com) Received: from mass.osd.bsdi.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.osd.bsdi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA01434; Sun, 9 Jul 2000 20:35:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.osd.bsdi.com) Message-Id: <200007100335.UAA01434@mass.osd.bsdi.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Adam Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: making the snoop device loadable. In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 09 Jul 2000 13:45:42 EDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2000 20:35:23 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I think you missed my point. I'm not talking about hackers at all; if a > hacker can load a module the game is already over. I'm talking about > legit people with root who might do things behind the back of the person > who compiled the kernel without snp in the first place. I think you might want to start worrying about things like "rm" in this case, rather than something relatively trivial like the snoop device. -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message